Preston Lauterbach's new book, "Before Elvis," celebrates the many Black artists who shaped Elvis Presley’s creative vision and musical style.

The craftsman makes sturdy ladder-back chairs through green woodworking, a technique that carves out furniture from a log. Its seats are finely woven, and the two horizontal bars that connect the two ...

Robell Awake is a chairmaker and scholar based in Atlanta, Georgia. He speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his new book, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects." ...

Our favorite books by Black authors Growing up as a young Black girl in the South, I saw positive representations of Black ...

The Slave graves were sandstone, anonymous, gathered in rows near my great-great grandparents’ monuments. When mr. henson ...

Autherine Lucy Foster made history on Feb. 3, 1956, becoming the first Black student to attend classes at the University of ...

Celebrate Black History Month with the Freedom Center's robust schedule of music, film, and plays showcasing Black history as American history.

Happy February, DC! Take your Valentine to a romantic R&B concert this month, or groove to the beats of local musician ...

Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner takes over from Tony Blair to read the poem Here by Hull-based poet Philip Larkin. The congregation is then asked to join to sing the hymn Amazing Grace. Blair ...

Celebrating Black History Month, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday, Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum, Joe Nuxhall Way, ...